We were taking our youngest daughter to summer sleepover camp near Granby, and we were so hungry we were grunting to one another, so we stopped in downtown Winter Park. We wanted someplace that had vegetarian options. The Indian place was closed, the Mexican joint and the cafes we checked-out were too expensive, and the hot-dog shop was out of its veggie dogs. We gave up and kept heading north, grunting like gorillas. Just before we left the town we saw Mountain Rose Cafe, and I yanked the car into the gravel parking lot, fingers crossed. It looked kind of hippie.

The first item on the menu, a housemade veggie burger, with three kinds of nuts, tahini, and other good stuff. They came with a pile of crisp lettuce, sliced red onion, nearly slabs of fresh tomato. The whole-wheat buns could use a little work – too stiff, too tall yet also too small in diameter. If the joint had used better buns, I’d give the veggie burger something like a 9 in the veggie-burger category. But the bun knocks it down to an 8.